Magazine fire-arm



(No Model.) H. T- HAZARDI 2 Sheets-Sheet l.

MAGAZINE FIRE AR No. 279,242. Y Patented June 12,1883.

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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. H. T. HAZARD.

MAGAZINE FIRE ARM.

No. 279,242. Patented June 12,1883.

"ATENT OFFICE.,

HEXRY T. HAZARD, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

MAGAZINE FIRE-ARM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 279,242, dated June 12, 1883.

Application filed June l0, IPFQ. (No model.)

To al] wia/111, if mfr/V concern:

A3e it known that l, HENRY T. Hazinn, of

`the city and county of Los Angeles, and State of California, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in llagazine Fire-Arms; and l do hereby declare that the following, when taken in connection with the aecompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of magazine tire-arms in which the magazine is arranged longitudinally beneath the barrel.

The object of my invention is to make a magazine fire-arm that is simple, safe, and reliable, to do away with the cumbersome length and com] lieated mechanism of magazine-arms, and at the same time render the arm effective and convenient eitheil as a magazine-gun or as a single breech-loader.-

My invention consists in a vertical]y-moving solid earrierblock, forming part of the barrel when the arm is closed, a longitudinal]y-moving locking-bolt, in coinbination with an operating-lever pivoted in front of the carrier and beneath the magazine, and provided with means for giving the carrier and the bolt an intermittent movement, whereby as the lever is depressed the bolt is first withdrawn and the arm cocked. The carrier is then depressed into line with the magazine, that the empty shell may be ejected therefrom by the impact ofthe loaded cartridge forced thereon, and at the reverse motion of the lever the carrier is again elevated, and the bolt, returning, locks the carrier inplaee, as before.

My invention further consists in a slide which, b v its longitudinal movement, prevents the escape of gas as the cartridge is exploded from the bore of the arm to the magazine and is operated by the locking-bolt.

Referring now to the accompanying drawings, Figure l is alongitudinal sectional view of the arm closed. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the arm opened, Fig. 3, a perspeeti ve view of the carrier-block and shellextracting band V. Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line z e of Fig. l. Fig. 5 is a sectional view on the line 1/ y of Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the locking-bolt M, with its plate L,

-eeiver X in the frame wherein it moves.

on which is formed the lug H and the slide li. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the carrier on the opposite or right side, showing the concave groove Fig. S, a view showing the breech mechanism ofthe gun.

A, represent s the barrel, and B the magazine.v extending` beneath the barrel and opening into a mortise, X, in the frame in which the carrierbloek moves.

The earrier-block C is a solid piece of metal, and of suiiicient size to till the mortise or relt is formed with a groove, J, which engages the linger K on the arm of the lever, and is thereby operated vertically in the mortise X. The finger K also movesin the slots X in the plate L of the locking-bolt M. which is thereby operated longitudinally, tirst receding and cocking the arm and unlocking the carrier-block, which will fall in line with the magazine, where it remains miti] the reverse movement of the lever 'again elevates it.

lt will be seen that at the moment the mirrier block (l has been elevated into line with the bore ofthe arm it will then remain stationary, the force ot' the lever beingl then lost by real son of the shape of the groove Vin the carrier, and theforee meanwhile is transferred to the plate of the locking-bolt and reeiprocates it forward, locks the carrier in place, and removes the extension on the locking-boltfrom the hammer, leaving itfree to fall. At the rear end of the bore it is properly grooved out, so that the tlauge of the shell ma v tit snugly therein, a like groove being formed on the upper part of the carrier-block, which, when locked and in position, forms a continuons groove for the reception of the flange of the shell.

The carrier-block is provided with a band, V, that lits in a corresponding groovein thenp per rear'end ofthe barrel. This band V will move the empty shell down with the carrier as the carrier moves down into line with the magazine, and the empty shell will remain on the carrier until forced therefrom and out of 4the arm through the channel F b v the impact ofthe cartridge next ahead of it.v This band `V is movablv affixed to and works in the IOO upper half of the shell while the arm is locked; but when the carrier is depressed' into line with the magazine it will be elevated, so as to permit the passage thereunder of the fla nge of the loaded shell. This is effected by means of a stationary shoulder, U, latlixed to the walls of the mortise in which the carrier moves, which projects into the groove S and stops the band as the carrier is moving down and before it gets into line with the magazine, thereby leaving the space for the passage thereunder of the flange ofthe loaded shell.

The movement of the guard Gis continuous; not so the carrier or the locking-bolt, each ot' which has au intermittent movement as compared with the guard. lVhile the guard is being depressed the locking-bolt is operated on .by the linger on the arm of the guard, the linger meanwhile traveling in that part of the -slot in the carrier where its force is lost, be-

cause the slot of the carrier at this point .followstheline ot' travel ofthe finger K, the earrier remaining stationary 5 but when the bolt is clear out and the carrier unlocked the 'Sfinger will have reached that part in the slot in the carrier which. is so formed that by the further movement of the lever it willicause the carrier to move down into line with the 4magazine, the finger in the meanwhile traveling in that part ofthe slot in the Ybolt which is similar in shape to the'line of travel of the linger, andthe bolt will remain stationary until Ethe carrier has been depressed and again returned to its'elevated position and forms part `of the chamber, `when the bolt will again advance and ylock the carrier in'position as before.

Heretofore in all breach-loading arms the cartridge is forced into the rear open end of the barrel, and usually in magazine-arms by what is called the breech-bolt. This bolt incloses the firing-pin, and the complicatedmeehanism ot' these arms often causes the .pin to advance and explode the -cartridge before the same is fully in the bore of the gun. After the gun is fired the shell is witlnlrawn-from the chamber lby catchesor lugs formed on springs that project into the chamber and engage the flange of the shell. vvIf either is defective orshould break, the shell will remain in thechamber, and the arm is then disabled. Often the bullet, protruding` from the shell, is left'in the chamber when it is attempted to withdraw the ca rtridge without tiring, which will also-disable the arm. This cannot occur when vthe cartridges are fed to and the shell removed from` the arm after the-manner here shown.

To move the empty shell from the carrier as` it is brought in line-with the magazine, and at' thesame time arrest the loaded cartridge forced thereon, a spring, Q is provided, which isI placed in a mortise formed in the rear .walls of thespacc or slot X, its upper free endv 'extending out and into said space, and the lower end being fastened in the mortise in therear wall. The side of this spring Q'will Aproject su'fi-l ciently far into the line of 'themovement of the' cartridges to engage only the flange of the shell. This flange will be forced by this spring as it is elevated into the bore of arm when the carrier rises, and as the empty shell (or loaded, if the arm has not been fired) returns the flange will drop in the rear of the spring and 'be forced Vfronrthe carrier and out of the arm by the advance of the loaded cartridge, which lengthening-the frame ofthe gun or adding thereto any. complicated or cumbersome meehanismso liable toA get outof order. The magazine mecl1anisnrremainsstation ary while being used as a single breech-loader, and vice versa. lEithercanbe called on at will, and the working-.of one .will not interfere with the working of theother.

The arm is provided with a center lock of .the usual pattern, and-iseocked by the eXtension onthe locking-bolt M .when the triggerguard is thrown down in t-he usual well -known manner. vIn rising, the carrier does not uncover thefmouth ofthe magazine, and the eartridges-.cannotescape therefrom except when the carrier is forced down in line therewith for thereception of a cartridge.

I'have provided a bolt, ll, to kprevent the -escapeof .thegas from the bore as the arm is exploded, and it will alsoloek the carrier. It is movably attached to and works ylongitudinally inthe carrier, and is operated as follows z As the locking-bolt 'M advances into andloeks the .carrier it .will replace this bolt E, which will be moved forward, as in Fig. l, into a .-rccess,-a, intherframe across the joint between thecai-'rier-block and the wall of the frame,

thereby cutting offthe opening running down -in front of: the carrier-bloelgand thereby preventing any escape of gas from the bore into the magazine. As the locking-bolt is withdrawn a hook -or nose, H, on the plate L of the locking-bolt drives this bolt E back into the slot `in the carrier and leaves the carrier free to move down vagain as the lever is depressed.

I have shown an ordinary well-known single breech-loading attachment, which is adapted 'towork well on aanagaZine-gun ofthe pattern here shown.

The magazinebeing charged, the operation is as follows: Thelevcr is thrown down. The `inger-onthe arm of the guard vwill withdraw the locking-bolt and cockthe gun, the finger E meanwhile having traveled along in the groove ofthe carrier. 'At' this point it exerts .an inmagazine attachment without in any 4degree- IOO IIO

' zine.

iluence on the carrier and moves it down until low enough to allow a cartridge to pass thereon from the magazine and replace the empty shell. The lever is now thrown back, which will elevate the carrier, with its loaded cartridge, into line with the bore ofthe arm. The locking-block, when the carrier is up, will advance and lock the carrier iirmly in place, leaving the hammer free to fall, and the arm is ready for tiring.

If it is desired to charge the arm from the breech and not from the magazine, the hammer is cocked and breech-plug is removed, withdrawing the empty shell, when a new cartridge is passed into the chamber by hand and the breeelrblock closed, and they same is again ready for firing. It will thus be seen that the operator has the advantages of a single breechloader or a magazine-gun.

The magazine is loaded in the usual wellknown manner, while the operative parts are in their normal position, as in Fig. l. This is done through an opening made in the side of the frame in line with the `magazine, which opening connects with the groove I in the carrier that opens into the mouth ot' the magar I his opening in the side of the frame is covered by a longitudinal slide provided with a spiral spring, the tendency of which is to force the slide to its closed position. To introduee a cartridge the point of the cartridge is placed against this slide and pressed forward until the cartridge passes the carrierblock and beneaththc slide into the magazine. The carrier-block will act as a stop tohold the cartridge in place in the magazine.

The man ner of loading the magazine is shown in the Letters Patent to J. M. Marlin, l)ccember 9, 1879, No. 222,414.

O represents a hinged breech -l lock arranged to swing up and over to one side to open the breech of the gun, as in certain arms now orv formerly manufactured. \Vhen the arm is used as a magazinegun this block remains closed, and at all times it constitutes the breech ofthe gun. When the gun is used as a single loader the magazine and the operating device or mechanism connected therewith remain inactive and undisturbed, and the loading is effected by opening the breech-block O.

It is apparent that the particular form or construction of the breech-closing mechanism, block, or device is not important, so long as the arm is adapted to be loaded and operated breech-block which remains fixed when the magazine is in use, and which is in no way connected with the cartridge-carrier at any time, hence is always ready for operation without stopping to disconnect the carrier or otherwise adjust any part of the arm.

Having thus described my inventiml, what I claim is- I I. In a magazine tire-arm, the combination of a vertically-moving carrier, a sliding locking-bolt, and a lever arranged, substantially as shown and described, to independently actuate the carrier and lockingbolt.

2. The reciprocating carrier provided with slot .I and locking-bolt, with plate containing slots, as shown, in combination with the guard G, having the arm T and transverse finger K, passing through and working in said slots, whereby the arm of the lever is worked in the are of a circle and produces an intermittent reciprocating movement in the carrier and locking-bolt, substantially as described.

In combination with a recessed carrier block, a sliding locking-bolt adapted to enter the recess ot the block and connected with the operatingdever, substantially as shown and dcscribed, whereby the movement of thelever in one direction is caused to unlock the carrierblock, lower the same, and raise the hammer, and the movement in the reverse direction is caused to raise the carrier-block and carry the locking-bolt into the recess thereof.

i. In combination with the carrier-block the extracting-band V, seated in the block and having a limited play therein, and a iiXed stop or arm, U, arranged, substantially as shown, to limit the downward movement of the band V, as and for the purpose set forth.

The combination, with a barrel cut away on its lower side, a vertically-moving block adapted to complete the barrel and to replace the portion cut away, and a plate adapted and arranged to extend across the line ot' union otl the forward end of the block and the rear end ofthe barrel, as shown and described, whereby the escape of gas at that point is prevented. G. In combination with the recessed or grooved carrier-block (l, mounted in a frame havingvrecess a, the plate l, seated in the re cess ofthe block, as shown, and adaptedto be moved outward at the forward end as the locking-plate enters the rear end, and thus to form a gas-cheek and to assist in locking the block.

7. The combination, in a gun, of a magazine, a chargin or breech mechanism, substantially such asV described and shown, adapted to take cartridges from the magazine and dcliver them to the firing-chamber, and a breechclosing mechanism permanently disconnected from and wholly independent of the aforesaid charging mechanism ,whereby the gun is adapt ed to be used at will either as a single-loader or as a magazine-gun without special adjustment of parts.

, 8. In a gun, the combination of a frame, a barrel a magazine, a block, C, adapted to carry IOO ITO

cartridges from the magazine to the barrel, and devices, substantially such as shown and described, for operating said block, and an independent breech-block, O, adapted to open and close the breech independently of the block C, and permanenth7 disconnected from said block, whereby the gun may be at all times used either as a single-loader or as a magazine-'arm Without/special adjustment of its mechanism.

9. The combination of a barrel or frame, A, abreeeh-block, O, adapted to move across and to open and close the rear end ofthe barrel, a carrier, C, constituting a part ofthe barrel or cartridge-chamber, and having slot J a sliding plate, E, mounted in the carrier and arranged to project therefrom across the line of unison of the carrier and barrel, a sliding' lockclosed Without in any Way affecting the maga-` zine mechanism.

- HENRY T. HAZARD.

Vitnesses:

C. G. HAZARD,

J. L. GnLLEs. 

